Blank plays a version of herself, a New York playwright and teacher struggling to get her work produced. Radha Blank wrote, directed, produced, and starred in “The Forty-Year-Old Version,” a wonderfully sharp and insightful comedy loosely based on her own life. Image Credit: Courtesy of Sundance Institute. Critics were divided on the film, but the stress-inducing one shot birthing sequence that opens the film received acclaim, as did Kirby’s performance as a grieving Martha for her work, the star of “The Crown” received BAFTA, Oscar, Critics’ Choice, and SAG award nominations. Mundruczó directs and Wéber writes the screenplay for the Venice International Film Festival premiere, which stars Vanessa Kirby as a woman who undergoes a traumatic homebirth and the loss of her child, and the painful legal battle between her family and the midwife Eva (Molly Parker). Hungarian husband and wife team Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber adapted their own 2017 stage play “Pieces of a Woman” in 2020, making their English language filmmaking debuts in the process. Zack Sharf and Ryan Lattanzio contributed to this story.
IndieWire staffers have rounded up 60 favorites Netflix hidden gem films here, listed in no particular order. So, if you’re looking for something to watch and nothing getting pushed on the homepage is catching your eye, why not revisit some of the best overlooked films on Netflix?įrom campy horror sequels to indie gems that may have been left unseen without the streamer as a platform, Netflix’s massive catalog leaves plenty of room for scroll-sploring.
NETFLIX HIDDEN GEMS 2018 TRIAL
Yes, some Netflix Originals go on to get nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars: see “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “Don’t Look Up,” “The Power of the Dog,” “Mank,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” “The Irishman,” “Marriage Story,” and “Roma.” And yes, there are those that become massive hits for the streamer in terms of viewership, like “Red Notice,” “Bird Box,” or “The Gray Man.” A few even spawn their own series or franchises, like the YA rom-com trilogy “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” and Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston’s comedic “Murder Mystery” series.īut then, there are the titles that never quite reach massive critical acclaim or fan-favorite popularity: including festival premieres that failed to make a splash in wide release or international films that launched to muted reception at Netflix. While this quantity-first strategy ensures that practically everyone can find something they like, it also means that some great films are inevitably buried by the service’s all-powerful, maddeningly opaque algorithm. See Rian Johnson’s Oscar-nominated satirical whodunnit “Glass Onion” - a sequel to an already well-loved film that you definitely know about now thanks to its sprawling promotion - for starters. In 2022 alone, the streamer produced over 200 films, but only select titles received the marketing rollout and awards fanfare of the platform’s most serious industry plays.
The result is a new film arriving to the service and its subscribers seemingly every couple of days. Streaming giant Netflix puts a lot of effort (and a lot of money) into their original content every year. No matter how much you love cinema, and no matter how much movie-watching time you have on your hands, mere mortals cannot possibly keep up with all of the original films coming to streaming each week.
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